lawdbot has broken through the daily flood of new models to capture the internet’s attention.
The AI assistant launched as Clawdbot in December 2024, but rebranded to Moltbot on Tuesday after trademark confusion with Anthropic's Claude surfaced during its viral moment. The delayed recognition follows a familiar pattern: AI tools typically need time for organic adoption and word-of-mouth success stories to build momentum, a trajectory even ChatGPT followed.
Moltbot is different from your traditional AI chatbot, functioning as a much more capable AI assistant that performs tasks for you, true to its tagline, “the AI that actually does things.”
The possibilities are pretty much endless. Users can set it up to do simple tasks such as clearing your inbox and sending emails, or more complex actions such as connecting to several of your file systems and applications to automate entire workflows.
Some other advantages include that it is open sourced, accessible from mobile or desktop via WhatsApp, iMessage, Discord or Telegram, runs on your machine and has a deeper memory.
The Deep View’s CEO Faris Kojok has spent the past 72 hours tinkering with Moltbot and was left impressed, with the assistant autonomously automating complex workflows such as connecting his Granola account to his HubSpot or scanning his Gmail inbox every 10 minutes to drafts replies in his voice and send him a Telegram summary.
Moltbot’s success has had a ripple effect on the AI space and beyond, including:
- Since Moltbot can run locally and 24/7, many users are racing to purchase Mac Mini’s to use as home servers. Memes about it are taking over social media.
- Cloudflare stock jumps and reports correlate it to the popularity of Moltbot, as its popularity has highlighted how Cloudflare’s global edge network could be key in supporting Agentic systems like Moltbot.
Still, there are security concerns regarding the structure of Moltbot as the company itself acknowledges in support documentation, “There is no “perfectly secure” setup.”